Syria

A senior Iranian politician has underscored the instrumental role that IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani plays in the ongoing fight against terrorism in Syria and Iraq.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari has held talks with Turkish Foreign Ministry's Undersecretary Ümit Yalçın in Ankara on Thursday.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov have held a meeting on Tuesday as part of their periodic meetings in Moscow.

After Qatar’s protest, the Syrian government has also slammed Saudi Arabia for politicization of Hajj pilgrimage, saying the Saudi authorities continue to deny Syrian citizens the right to perform this Islamic duty.

A senior Turkish diplomat says the US in the past years has changed its approach towards Syria crisis for so many times that Ankara is now “a bit puzzled” on what Washington’s real policy and strategy is, particularly regarding the Syrian armed opposition groups.

Fighters of the Lebanese Resistance Movement, Hezbollah, have taken down the ISIS flag following a military operation against the terrorists along the Syria-Lebanon borders.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari has arrived in Damascus for talks with senior Syrian officials.

A top Iranian diplomat says the ‘limited’ presence of Iranian advisors in Syria comes at the request of Damascus and is not subject to agreement by any regional or international party.

A senior Iranian official has warned that the Zionist lobby is carrying out widespread activities to steer the political and security equations in the region toward undermining the legal Syrian government.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says any use of the ongoing tension in relations between Persian Gulf littoral states to change the regional balance would deteriorate the already fragile situation in the Middle East.

The fifth round of Syria talks, held in the Kazak capital of Astana on July 4-5, are assumed to be a major step forward for resolving the ongoing crisis in the war-torn Arab country despite trivial differences among participants.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani stressed the need to prevent the US government from interfering in the internal affairs of Syria through enhanced coordination between Tehran and Moscow.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic of Iran is after a political solution to the war in Syria, and welcomes any initiative that can restore peace to the war-torn country.

Iran’s foreign minister says unlike the hypocritical and double-standard policies of the US and other so-called advocates of human rights, the Islamic Republic of Iran vehemently condemns any use or threat to use weapons of mass destruction including chemical weapons.

Iran has blasted Washington’s ‘useless and questionable’ allegations about Syria, and warned against any unilateral military action against the Arab country.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along with his wife and children, visited injured army personnel in their home villages in the west-central province of Hama.

Several days after Iranian missiles targeted the ISIS positions in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor, the terrorist group finally confirmed the attacks.

The Syrian information minister says the US has waged a mock battle against ISIS in Syria and its military tactics only serve the interests of the terrorists fighting against Syrian government forces.

An IRGC source says dozens of ISIS terrorists, including several commanders, have been killed by the missile attacks launched by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps from western Iran.

The IRGC has reportedly used at least two types of mid-range missiles, including both liquid and solid fuel ones, to target the positions of Takfiri terrorists in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor in a series of strikes launched on Sunday in retaliation for the recent Tehran attacks.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has fired several mid-range missiles on the positions of Takfiri terrorists in Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, in retaliation for the recent terrorist attacks on Tehran.

The Syrian Army, along with allied forces, announced that it has reached Iraqi border areas northeast of al-Tanf, and also restored 105 kilometres of the Syrian-Jordanian border.

The ISIS terrorists have reportedly initiated talks with the Syrian Kurdish forces to be able to exit the city of Raqqa safely and head for Deir ez-Zor.

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, says the Saudi regime will fail to achieve any victory in Yemen within the next 20 years if it maintains its current approach.

Iran has censured an airstrike by US military aircraft on a convoy of Syrian government forces, saying the move was carried out with the goal of changing the existing balance in the battlefield.